What are you reading?

[Lucifa]

dont know what i think but its such easy reading

after a slow start this down out to be fucking great and i thoroughly recommend it. so good that i finished factotum and post office as well in the same week.

Anything else like this? Straight talking down to earth adventures of morally ambiguous characters.

[Mr_Frost]

@lucifa you may like Ask the Dust by John Fante....he was one of bukowski's influences.

also you might like Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller.

[Mr_Frost]

I've been taking my sweet jolly time reading dante's inferno. finally almost finished.

It's great init? Must be the only book I've read more than once.

if there was not an in depth analysis after each canto i would have almost no idea what is going on.
but it is good. there are constant references to it in other books...figured it was something i should read.

[arktrix45hz]

@lucifa you may like Ask the Dust by John Fante....he was one of bukowski's influences.

also you might like Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller.

Henry Miller is the one.

[butter_man]

also you might like Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller.

a mate tried lending this to the wife. he got told to fuck off.

[wolf89]

The whole of the book of the new sun and it's taking shitting ages cause I don't read enough,

[magma]

b2b

[Johoosh]

You read this?

[Mojo]

Finally I got a copy of this.

[cloquet]

twitter, a horse racing website & I just downloaded the pdf of 'a crackup at the race riots'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Crack_Up ... Race_Riots

[Camu]

Just finished

Now reading:

[magma]

You read this?

No I haven't, I'll add it to the wantlist. Thanks!

Whilst we're on the subject of hiphop, these are all worth a squiz:







"Can't Stop, Won't Stop" almost feels like a sequel to:



Really recommend reading that first to get the Kingston/soundsystem background which is covered fairly quickly in the first chapter of Can't Stop, Won't Stop before they move onto the New York block party scene.

[Johoosh]

^Big ups magma.

Will get on those when i've got a bit of spare time. Check The Technique is sick on certain albums (Low End Theory, Check Your Head (sounds like possibly the most fun anyones had recording anything), 36 Chambers in particular), half the wikipedia articles for them are culled from that book

[cloquet]

Just finished

Now reading:

mad luv for hesse. have you read 'steppenwolf'?

[nitz]

I finished Life of PI last week! It was an amazing book. I thought the movie concept was very good but i better a better understanding before i watch the movie.

I've started reading Karl Pilkington's 2nd book and its as funny as the shows!

[Camu]

Just finished

Now reading:

mad luv for hesse. have you read 'steppenwolf'?

Yes mate!! Steppennwolf must be the best book I ever read, Hesse is the man

[Muncey]

Trying to read the new Frankie Boyle book b2b "The Planned Economies of Eastern Europe" b2b2b "Intermediate Microeconomics"

Fuck those last 2. Frankie Boyles is alright though... just ramblings, I read he wrote most of it on acid which is understandable.

[wub]

Just finished this;

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front Line Dispatches from the Advertising War

Inspiration for Mad Men, mostly anecdotal stuff about drinking, shagging in the workplace, art directors coming in at 2pm strung out on acid/weed because "the mornings scared [them]". Funny stuff but a bit thin on the ground.

And now just started this;

My Friend The Mercenary

Story of a documentary producer who gets in with the people behind the failed coup in Equatorial Guinea. Pretty brutal in places with first hand accounts of the atrocities the rebels in the region were committing on the opposing tribes.

[d-T-r]

slightly heavy'ish reading but quite interesting.this video will give you an idea on the type of thing it covers. (the origins of image,iconography,symbolism and narrative as far back as there has been any, and how we find similar patterns emerge in the naratives and also within our dreams)

http://vimeo.com/4294757



this too :

The Heart of Recognition: The Wisdom and Practices of the Pratyabhijna Hrdayam by Swami Khecaranatha.



Tis basically the art of liberation through direct recognition.

[HamCrescendo]

Seen this around alot, any good? Blake was probably the poet to turn me onto poetry, before that I liked odds and ends but never really appreciated the art itself. Remember seeing a book on Blake as a visionary anarchist which looked interesting as well.

Anywhoo,



This caught my eye after reading the fucking brilliant Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber a year or so back. Debt is definately where my political-economic interest (ahem) is at the moment, and this book has slowly started getting me interested in Deleuze and Italian autonomism etc. But to be honest I think I'm gonna have to just sit and tredge through Das Kapital (again, with a much more informed mind) and the Grundrisse because much of what I'm reading seems to come back to those two books. Again I can't reccomend Graeber's Debt enough, so I'll post up the picture in case it makes some impression upon your minds and you go get it if you havent read it yet.


For 'fun:'

Started reading this after finishing Ulysses which, somewhat suprisingly to me, I absolutely raced through and thought was fucking brilliant. Once I've got this done and dusted, and I have no academic shit to worry about, I'm gonna get cracking on Finnegan's Wake.

aaand I've been reading the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and 'that other guy' for a long while. Loved the first book and raced through it, but been meandering through the second for ages. Really want to get through it because it really does have a beautiful heap of references and got me looking into Jung and Lovecraft and rereading Burroughs again.


But mostly I've been reading dry as fuck journal articles on entitlement theories of justice for my dissertation. O lawd I'm so bored of it all, and I cant afford to buy any new off-topic books to distract myself from it any further.